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<div id="summary">15 years experience in cable and interactive TV
10 years experience as team lead for groups of 6-8
10+ years doing cable focused QA, 6 of those as a QA manager
Experience evenly divided between design, programming, analysis and test
Over 25 years experience in software development
Excellent written and oral communication skills
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  <div id="company1" title="Vidiom Systems">
    <div id="position11">Principal Test Engineer / Manager </div>
    <div id="exp_time11">11/2004 - present</div>
    <div id="experience11">Performed the duties of team lead and line manager.  Responsible for defining process and direction for a team of testers.  Participated in interviewing, made hiring decisions, presented offers, responsible for staff assignment and performance review for the QA department.  Participated in budgeting, selected, ordered, installed, configured and maintained an IPTV head-end test environment.   

Provided input to proposals, participated in scheduling tasks and progress tracking of projects.  Developed presentations and demos, including a traveling environment for trade shows.  Attended industry trade shows to demonstrate an integrated IPTV solution.
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As a principal engineer, wrote test plans and developed test procedures, performed integration and end-to-end system testing for system level and application software for Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) digital head-end software.  Performed the role of field engineer at customer sites, providing training, installation, trouble-shooting, and acceptance test consultation.
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    <div id="position21">Sr QA Analyst </div>
    <div id="exp_time21">6/2004 - 11/2004</div>
    <div id="experience21">Wrote unit tests for Visual C++ using CPPUnit.  Defined test architecture and reusable test components using Test Director and the Test Director interface to Python. Wrote Python extensions using Visual C++.  Designed automated test scripts to perform system tests against applications written using Windows Open Desktop and OpenGL in a distributed environment.</div>
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  <div id="company3" title="MystroTv">
    <div id="position31">Sr QA Engineer </div>
    <div id="exp_time31">6/2002 - 4/2004</div>
    <div id="experience31">Managed a team which fluctuated from 6 – 8 testers and programmers. Activities included hiring, firing, identifying, prioritizing, and assigning tasks, evaluating performance and reporting status to upper management.

Created custom software and defined testing processes to provide automated testing of network digital video recorder applications in a two-way digital cable environment.  Defined a comprehensive software verification test plan and was involved in reviewing requirements, test plans, source code and hardware configurations.

The custom software was a Java application running in a Linux environment which provided interfaces to define use cases with a simple user interface, associate use cases with requirements, provide results analysis and reporting.
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  <div id="set1">Languages:	C++, Java, Perl, C, Assembler, HTML, JavaScript, PHP.  
Platforms:	Unix systems, PCs, Embedded platforms.
OSs:	Various flavors of Linux, Unix and Windows, Various embedded systems, more.
IDEs:	Eclipse, NetBeans, Microsoft Developer Studio, Gnu Tools.
CMSs:	Mercurial, Subversion, Perforce.
Other:	Struts2, jQuery, Spring, Hibernate, OpenOffice, MS Office, MS Project, many more.
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    <div id="degree1">B.A.</div>
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    <div id="deg_time1">1981</div>
    <div id="university1">University of Dayton </div>
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